Can a day go by without Google making an announcement? I’m not so sure.

Today’s news from Mountain Viewis that more fully viewable content is now available on Google. Television lovers and historians are going to be, well, thrilled. Google is beginning to digitize an archive of interviews of key people in tv history. Google is working with the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation to digitize and make accessible interviews from the Foundation’s Archive of American Television. Access to the content is free.

At this point, the first 75 of the 284 historic films (which equals to about 240 viewing hours) can be watched on Google Video at http://video.google.com. To access include the search terms [academy of television] in your Google Video search query.

Kudos to Google for making this type of content available. I hope other services begin digitizing and making more accessible the thousands of hours of archived interviews, lectures, and more.

Postscript: Philipp let me know via email that this new content is not visible in Germany.

Ever since Google made the announcement that HTTPS is a ranking signal, there has been a lot of discussion around that extra ‘s’. While there are clear benefits, there is also a lot of nervousness around actually making the switch. So is it really worth it?